About the Key Players in Dennis Carter-Edwards’ article The War of 1812 Along the Detroit Frontier: A Canadian Perspective

The Port Huron Statement was written by Tom Hayden, a social activist, in 1962. He was part of a group calling itself, Students for a Democratic Society”.

The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and England. Ending in 1815 with the Treaty of Ghent, the war did not accomplish any of the issues it was being fought over. For the US, the War of 1812 seemed to just be one failure after another. Although the military suffered great failure during the war, these were the direct consequence of the failure of the citizens to unite for the causes of the war. Because of these failures, it is quite valid to call the War of 1812 "America's worst-fought war".

The remainder of the book digresses from Laxer’s main ideas, abandons any semblance of support for the thesis, and serves simply as an inflated denouement to the conclusion of the War of 1812. The final chapter of the book does little to reinforce any argument, but rather discusses the nature of Tecumseh and Brock as some kind of folk legends in Canada. With this in mind a reader must ask, is this a dual biography? Is it a history of the War of 1812? Is the text simply a piece of anti-American sentiment penned for the bicentennial memorial of 1812 in Canada, as it often reads? This lack of focus is the problem with Tecumseh & Brock. Despite its compelling nature the text falls short of its academic

This article was an overall view on Valley Forge, and what happened there. The author wasn’t that descriptive on the events that took place. The author did a good job on explaining the main points, but was lacking overall in

Sir Isaac Brock and Tecumseh may have had a strong alliance but together could not find a way to defeat the freedom-loving American people or it’s president, James Madison. These three men all had powerful leadership roles and largely affected the War of 1812 and changed the future of North America. Tecumseh, the Shawnee war chief, James Madison, the United States President, and Sir Isaac Brock, the British commander of Canada, all had dreams for the future, and the War of 1812 would determine which of these would come true. Tecumseh wanted to preserve the land for his people and get the white men out of the Shawnee’s lives. James Madison wanted the land in order to grow the United States, and be able to offer Americans more opportunities

a. What do the authors say at the outset is the “supreme lesson” of the War of 1812? The leading a divided and apathetic people into war is a bad idea

^ of british military in America post 7 years war in order to prevent native rebellions (Pontiac’s and Proclamation of 1763)

The group discussed about how each battle had significance to and changed the way Canada is. We talked about how Canada and the people living here would have changed such as the the way we would have spoken, some religions and some cultural practices. We talked about if Pierre felt emotions for his friend Isidore being killed, even though he said “It’s war, Luc! Some must die” (p.72) when Luc questions “But your friend, Isidore, dead” (p.72)? If you think he felt emotions, which ones and why? We also discussed how each side of the battle would have felt with the decisions they made. The group discussion also involved talking about the Northwest Rebellion and how it related to the battles that took place between the Metis and the Canadian troops.

The most important aspect of this proposal deals with the aftermath of the Canadian insurrections. This will be of extreme to significance to the reader as the aftermath of the rebellion would change the destiny of Canada. After learning of the uprisings in the Canadian colonies the British parliament sent a commission to study the causes. Lord Durham was named governor on May of 1839 and was in placed in charge of establishing an inquiry into the rebellions. From this inquiry came a list of recommendations submitted to the parliament in London (Outlett, 275). Two recommendations in this report became extremely significant to Canadian history.

The five conditions Turney-High states can be used to show how the Amerindians met the five conditions in fighting a war with the Iroquois in the seventeenth and eighteenth century; therefore these same conditions can be used to explain Amerindian warfare. Historian Leroy Eid validates the Amerindian’s method of warfare as he shows the five conditions were met during the Ojibwa-Iroquois War of the seventeenth century in his article, “The Ojibwa-Iroquois War: The War the Five Nations Did Not Win.” He shows the complexity of tactical control as the Ojibwa used a coordinated three prong attack against the Iroquois with by land and by water, with battles happening on land and naval battles occurring with canoes. Eid describes the assault as “a

The war of 1812 has been won by the Americans due to the difference of population between soldiers (5:1) and smarter battle plans. In this timeline America is smarter with battle plans and targets larger strong points of Canada instead of Small points with ease. They take over the

For one I did not know that the French and Indian was also referred to as the Seven Years’ War. It was a bit difficult to read and comprehend, so obviously, the introduction helped a great deal with getting to understand most of what was being explained throughout it all. I enjoyed looking at the illustrations Anderson placed throughout the text. A problem I faced while reading the book was boredom. Yes, the book had outstanding evidence used to support the author’s thesis; but I had trouble focusing on reading the book itself. I found it to be very bland. If I were to walk into a library, pick the book off a shelf and read the first chapter (let alone the first sentence), I would place it back where I found it and leave. American Independence would have most likely never occurred if not due to the Seven Years’ War. (Anderson 2000) Overall my knowledge of the Seven Years’ War was limited to what was taught in history classes prior to college. I had not considered all the different points of view that Anderson has used to prove his thesis in the book. I doubt many people have bothered taking any of this into consideration as well. I believe this is due to the fact the Seven Years’ War does not carry much weight since we as Americans take our point of reference from the American Revolution, not the whole empire. (Anderson

There are 4 different perspectives to the War of 1812, American, Canadian, British, and Native American. These 4 perspectives need to be looked at in order to understand the full measure of the War of 1812. Each side had their own reasons for fighting and their perceived outcome.

Graeme Garrad, author of the article and a senior lecturer in history at Cardiff University evokes the event of War of 1812. He writes a beautiful article entitled “The saviour of Canada” which was printed in the journal History today in October 2012. This article is about how Canada defended Britain from United States in the War of 1812. He tells about the consequences of the war and describes how Canada helped Britain. I am going to review his article on the basis of language, images, content, facts, His style of writing, how he concluded the argument, what title lead us to expect from the article, bias or not.

One of Canada’s largest military endeavors was the battle of Vimy Ridge during World War One. It was a fierce battle between Germans and Canadians. Canada was trying to take over the German controlled ridge, which ran from northwest to southwest between Lens and Arras, France. Its highest point was 145 feet above sea level, which was exceptionally helpful in battle because of the very flat landscape. Already over 200,000 men had fallen at Vimy, all desperately trying to take or defend this important and strategic ridge. As a result of its success in taking the ridge, Canada gained a lot more than just the strategic point. Canada was united as a nation, and the victory changed the way other counties viewed them. Canadians no longer